My Goggle Chrome was the portable version from maybe 10 years ago, updated whenever it wanted to till about 3 years ago. Now it keeps telling me to install, so what are they looking for in my laptop? As they find suitable resting places (& registry entries) while they load all their files?
Portable Chrome still seems as shiny as it ever was and I only use it (mostly) to check my websites & Goggle Translate. It must really confuse the algorithm.

Having said that MS Edge keeps insisting on a Co-Pilot install & Yahoo preface most searches with an AI answer that is at least 50% ineffective. Not that I consult the answers that often. When I search I use specific terms, often with the word "red" and Amazon results always fail to offer "red" - they remove the term, and I don't buy from them anyway.